• masquenox@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 day ago

    Militaries are shit for fighting anything but other militaries.

    That’s not true at all. Almost every time an insurgency is cut off from outside logistical support (or doesn’t have it in the first place) it’s chances of being defeated by conventional militaries is pretty high.

    There are lots of examples - the LTTE in Sri Lanka (defeated in the 2000s), the MNLA in Malaya (defeated in the 1960s) - they are simply just not as well-known as the insurgencies that succeeded.

    The whole reason the Palestinian resistance had to accede to this (so-called) “ceasefire” is because they simply do not have the logistics to carry on the fight for that much longer - if the Palestinians had a Ho Chi Minh Trail, Israel would be history by now.